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Scarlet Street · Beat 125 · permalink

Bedroom

1:23:37–1:24:59 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:391:23:39Frame at 1:23:451:23:45Frame at 1:24:121:24:12Frame at 1:24:581:24:58

Play from 1:23:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 289–294. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Kitty (named at t:83:53): woman, dark hair, wearing a white dress, lying on a bed visible, audible
  • Johnny (named at t:83:38): man, dark suit, tie, slicked-back hair, standing near doorway visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman lies on a bed in a white dress. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit enters the room and stands near the bed. [frame:3]
  • The man stands in the doorway, looking distressed. [frame:4]
Also said
“I can marry you now. I want you to be my wife. We'll go away together.” 84:41 · “I'm not crying, you fool. I'm laughing.” 84:55
Seen
bed with tufted headboard [frame:1], white dress [frame:1], telephone on bedside table [frame:2], dark suit and tie [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally volatile; themes: betrayal, rejection, marriage proposal, emotional manipulation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on characters, dramatic close-ups

A woman in a white dress is on a bed while a man in a suit enters the room; dialogue reveals a confrontation about betrayal and a marriage proposal. The woman laughs at the end, rejecting the man's offer.

“You lied to me, Kitty.” 83:53 · “I wanted to kill him. But it's wrong.” 84:13 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Scarlet Street (1945) at 1:23:39 (passage 1:23:37–1:24:59); US record: No renewal found

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